Dozens of Palestinian prisoners have been freed by Israel after three hostages left Hamas captivity in an exchange that took ...

31 July: The talks are suspended following Israel's assassination of Hamas political leader and chief negotiator Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Discussions resume two weeks later ...

Israel says it killed military commander Mohammed Deif and political chief Ismael Haniyeh last summer. Two months later, in the biggest blow to the movement, Israel killed Yahya Sinwar ...

Both Sinwar and Haniyeh could easily have secured the baby’s safety. They chose not to. They planned and rehearsed, over several years, those October 7 raids in which 1200 innocents were hacked ...

Hazem Alghabra’s childhood, a former senior adviser to the US State Department, was far from typical for a young Syrian boy. Born in the early 1980s to an educated, urban, and relatively secular ...

On July 31, Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh is killed in a strike in Iran. Israel accepts responsibility months later. On September 17 and 18, hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies used by ...

The first phase of the deal calls for a 42-day ceasefire and the release of an initial 33 hostages, U.S. officials said. A senior U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss ...

Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif were among those killed since October 2023. ABC News' Samy Zyara, Diaa Ostaz, Nasser Atta, Meredith Deliso, Somayeh Malekian and Joe ...

Hamas is a Palestinian armed group and political movement in the Gaza Strip. On 7 October 2023 it attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages. This triggered a ...

Ismail Haniyeh, the leading figure of Hamas, is killed in Iran at the end of July in what appeared to be an assassination. Later, Hamas claimed the leader was killed in an airstrike and pointed ...

And it has targeted the most senior figures in Hamas in foreign capitals, with the failed Mossad assassination of Haniyeh’s predecessor Khaled Mashaal in Amman, Jordan in 1997. The extra judicial ...